Donald J. Levit

Tomatometer-approved critic

Biography:

Donald J. Levit is a free-lance writer with a B.A. from Duke and a Ph. D. from Chicago. Although born in Nashville and raised there and in Brooklyn, he has lived in many other places in the U.S. He also resided for a time in the Caribbean and, for twenty-two years, in Spain. Dr. Levit now calls New York City his home.

'Genius' scores for near monochromatic visualization of Depression era New York and New Canaan, the daring red of a woman's hat standing out in a drizzly male world out of a 1934 photograph. - ReelTalk Movie ReviewsEDIT

If spectators felt they did not grasp what happened with banks, stocks, and mortgages to crash the world economy, 'The Big Short' will leave them only deeper in debt and doubt. - ReelTalk Movie ReviewsEDIT

Good or bad depends on whether one cares to watch such raw hysterical darkness, and whether it is worth watching. Against the tide, this voice crying in the wilderness says, no, it isn't. - ReelTalk Movie ReviewsEDIT

The joyful sensuality of the soundtrack and dancers is irresistible, the thin-ish characters are comic or villainous but winning, and the no-frills borderline crudity fits and intensifies the whole. - ReelTalk Movie ReviewsEDIT

In spite of woodenness, creakiness in plot, and unintentional humor in printed piety, ' The Public Enemy,' a film of its time, was a sensation at that time, and is still not to be missed today. - ReelTalk Movie ReviewsEDIT

Like its central figure, and like the director and his oeuvre, the film has its flaws but they are to be overlooked in consideration of the whole package and the heart: were it otherwise, none should 'scape whipping. - ReelTalk Movie ReviewsEDIT